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Ola! We are Jorg (36) and Lisa (26) an adventurous young couple from the Netherlands. The past 3 years we have been traveling with our camper and a few months ago we found our dream place in Portugal. When we found this place we fell in love immediately. Our house is in the middle of nature with our nearest neighbors 2 km away. Our house is off grid what means that we get our own energy from solar panels and water from our well. Everything is working now but we are still optimize things. Our land is 4 Hectares so we have a lot of space. We are surrounded by olive fields and forest so you can walk beautifully in the area. We love working on our land in the peace of nature and the sun. But despite the fact that it feels like we live very remote, everything is still close by. Tentùgal can be done on foot or by bike. The beach is 30 minutes by car and Coimbra is also a 30 minute drive. This means there are plenty of things to do if you want some things to explore.
We have 2 important family members. Our dogs Vi, a 3 year old female from Montenegro that we found on our camper trip. And Nelson, a 1 year old male from Portugal that we adopted when we moved into our house.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Videography
Van life
Technology
Sustainability
Culture
Movies & TV
Pets
Farming
Plant care
Photography
Music
Languages
Gardening
Drawing & painting
DIY & crafts
Cooking & food
Carpentry
Art & design
Animals
Yoga / Wellness
Nature
Hiking
Beach
Camping
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We learn new things every day and we are very open to share this new knowledge. Things about Gardening, Solar system, waterwell, building etc. We would also like to learn from the workawayer. We did a workaway twice during our camper trip and therefore know what it is like to be a workawayer. We like to meet new people, get to know each other, eat and cook together. But also enough time to do your own things and have your own space.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
There are many projects need to be done. Because we just started to create a life in Portugal. We would like to create a vegetable garden. We would be very happy if someone knows about this and can help with it. We read some things about Permaculture and find it very interesting. Would be really cool to share knowledge with each other. The garden always needs something small to do since we have 4 hectares, it is never finished😁 (light cleaning, planting, lawn mowing, watering). We would like to build a chicken coop and welcome chickens. We have various fruit trees and olive trees that need pruning. Jorg is often busy fixing things, for example he arranged for us to finally have hot water! And he is working on the solar system, you can always watch or help if you find this interesting. Collecting wood for the winter, playing and training with the dogs, restoring old furniture, woodstaining, pruning and mowing, restoring the Pizza oven to eat home made pizza's! We have many other light projects like that. We would also like to see what suits someone, but since there is enough different things, that will definitely work out!
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Dutch: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
Just started to learn Portugese
Accommodation
We have a beautiful guesthouse that we can offer. This is a stone house in our garden with a fully equipped kitchen and a heater to keep you warm in the winter. The house has its own terrace and a beautiful view from the window where you can wake up with the sunrise. The hot shower and toilet are in our outdoor bathroom. If you have a camper van you can also park on our land and use the outside bathroom.
We like to share a big warm lunch together after working. And in the evening have time for ourself and make your own food in the guesthouse. All the food will be on our cost.
What else ...
Our place is off grid so no neighbors. You can well or cycle to Tentúgal or villages nearby. In Tentúgal you have the best cute pastry shops and it’s even famous for those. There are busses to Figuera da Foz and Coimbra but even an uber or bolt is not expensive.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
Welcome to stay with your camper, we have a outside bathroom with toilet and a shower with hot water. You can stay on a beautiful spot between our fruittrees.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
